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Jinshan Yuanqu railway station

railway station in Shanghai, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ22098802 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jinshan Yuanqu (simplified Chinese: 金山园区; traditional Chinese: 金山園區; pinyin: Jīnshān Yuánqū; lit. 'Jinshan Industrial Park') is a railway station on the Jinshan railway in Jinshan District, Shanghai. It opened as a divergence to the newly-built Pudong Railway on December 9, 2005 as Ruanxiang Railway Station. In 2012 it was renamed to Jinshan Yuanqu and started intercity passenger service on September 28, 2012. The station serves Shanghai Jinshan Industrial Park. Only local trains stop at this station.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jinshan Yuanqu railway station” as railway station in Shanghai, China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. The account is most persuasive where Jinshan, Yuanqu and railway can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Shanghai, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22098802. Authority coordinates are 30.832, 121.364. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2012.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jinshan Yuanqu railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jinshan Yuanqu railway station primary sources, Jinshan Yuanqu railway station archive and Jinshan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jinshan Yuanqu railway station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Jinshan Yuanqu railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.